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‘An immune response is brought about by two components of the immune system, namely the innate immunity and the acquired or specific immunity, acting in conjunction with each other and with other molecules.’

‘Without vaccination, it can take days or weeks to acquire immunity to a particular disease.’

‘Ministry officials point out that there is high natural immunity to the disease.’

‘With the development of a protective immune response and serological evidence of immunity, infection becomes latent and usually remains so for the life of the patient.’

‘Women who develop immunity to the infection before pregnancy are not in danger of transmitting it to their babies.’

‘Most research has looked at the effect of these supplements on immunity and infectious disease, with conflicting results.’

‘Some researchers argue that non-type specific immunity deserves consideration today because the epidemiological circumstances may differ from those in the past.’

‘Your doctor can test you for immunity to this viral disease before pregnancy and vaccinate you against it if you aren't immune.’

‘There are good reasons to believe a vaccine is possible, for the simple reason that we do observe that people can develop immunity to malaria.’

‘At birth, infants have immunity to certain diseases because antibodies have passed through the placenta from the mother to the unborn child.’

‘Head lice are difficult to remove because of their size, reinfestation rate, life cycle, and their ability to develop immunity to insecticides.’

‘Half the world has absolutely no immunity to the disease, and we travel much more easily from place to place now than we did then.’

‘Blood tests are also used to find out if you have immunity to certain diseases.’

‘Once past the initial illness, most people develop lifelong immunity to future infection.’

‘However most pregnant women with parvovirus infection have normal, healthy babies and most pregnant women are not at risk for parvovirus infection because of immunity.’

‘They also may have lower immunity to infection than older family members, plus increased viral shedding and longer duration of illness.’

2Protection or exemption from something, especially an obligation or penalty.

‘the rebels were given immunity from prosecution’

‘Observers say that the terror inspired by the veterans and their apparent immunity from the law has been seized on by disgruntled workers to settle scores with employers.’

‘Politicians lost their immunity from unflattering exposure.’

‘Nor is there room for the immunities that have often protected heads of state and diplomats in domestic courts.’

‘Doctors now realise they don't have the immunity from being sued they once did and as a result are more cautious about what they actually do in terms of prescriptions and surgery.’

‘He said that criminal figures were flaunting their immunity from the law.’

‘The man who was then the mayor of the capital is safe from prosecution, protected by his immunity.’

‘Even in situations where an undertaking does not qualify for a total immunity from a fine penalties may be reduced.’

‘It often seems to me that Ukrainians have a distinctive immunity that protects them from the gaudy attractions of fashionable trends.’

‘They also enjoy the same immunity from prosecution as Members of Parliament.’

‘Their immunity from getting tricked of course was simply to put on a costume that would fool the ghosts away.’

‘Because they are not directly engaged in hostilities against an adversary, they retain their civilian immunity from attack.’

‘However, it also relies on the immunity from action in respect of claims brought against it by members of the armed forces conferred by the 1947 Act.’

‘Because of the absolute immunity from accountability that EU officials feel they possess, they decided to ignore these requests.’

‘It could be an immunity from a government action - for instance, my right to free speech bars the government from punishing me for speaking.’

‘No immunity from infringement has been claimed on the basis of any earlier right or acquiescence in the present case.’

‘Their immunity from attack, in the event of failure to inspect, in other words, though great is not absolute.’

‘Subject to the suggested immunity from losses, the claim for 25% looks suspiciously like the presentation of a fourth partner.’

‘The right to silence is and is no more than an immunity from adverse inferences from failing to answer an accusation or question or evidence.’

‘It seems to me that the stauncher first world proponents of globalisation feel a personal immunity from its vicissitudes.’

‘It may set out a set of privileges and immunities that do not protect witnesses from breaking New Zealand's criminal law, for example, or from not having to pay their parking fines, or anything like that.’